Many people worldwide believe that domestic animals can detect the presence of paranormal phenomena. The most common pets reported to be affected by paranormal occurrences are dogs and cats.

Domestic animals are said to be able to sense either their owners or a close loved ones own death weeks or even months before they die. This could possibly be caused by a shift in the humans energy just before they die which the pet might pick up on.

There have been reported cases in the past which could suggest that Telepathy has been used between owner and pet. One report of this was of the late nineteenth century actor William Terries who was murdered in London. At the exact same time of his stabbing, his family fox terrier pet at his home in Bedford became very unsettled. He was running around constantly yelping and barking in fear and anger. It was thought that he communicated telepathically with William and sensed he was in great danger.



Many people believe that their pet can see ghosts in and around their homes. Reports have included cats and dogs becoming scared and cowering into corners as if something has come into the room that they do not like, or animals which refuse to go into certain rooms or parts of the house as though they are avoiding going near something the human may not be able to see or sense. Many cats and dogs are said to become transfixed on areas as though they are watching someone or something in the room and many animals will not break their stare for a long period of time.

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A recently coined term defined as "a form of information transfer in which all known sensorial stimuli are absent. That is some individuals are able to gain access to information by an as yet unknown process.

This is also known as Remote Viewing (RV) and Clairvoyance. Sometimes used more generally in place of ESP.

That which is not naturally or scientifically explained. Different from the norm.

Satan. The enemy of man and God who, according to many religious cultures, will establish a reign of evil on earth which will last fifty years, before being overthrown by the second coming of Christ.

Commonly used term to define the end of the world, however this could also indicate the start of something new.

Judgement Day, the second coming of Christ.

A Greek name for the Book of Revelations.

Optimists may use this term to refer to the end of life as we know it, and the start of enlightenment or some the birth or dawn of a new age.

Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness".

"While observations of relevant work environments and human behaviors in these environments is a very important first step in coming to understand any new domain, this activity is in and of its self not sufficient to constitute scientific research. It is fraught with problems of subjective bias in the observer. We (like the experts we study) often see what we expect to see, we interpret the world through our own personal lens. Thus we are extraordinarily open to the trap of apophenia."

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In statistics, apophenia would be classed as a Type I error (false positive, false alarm, caused by an excess in sensitivity). Apophenia is often used as an explanation of some paranormal and religious claims. It has been suggested that apophenia is a link between psychosis and creativity.

Origins

Conrad originally described this phenomenon in relation to the distortion of reality present in psychosis, but it has become more widely used to describe this tendency in healthy individuals without necessarily implying the presence of neurological or mental illness.

Pareidolia is a type of apophenia involving the finding of images or sounds in random stimuli.

Examples
Discordianism

The Principia Discordia refers to the act of seeing order which does not really exist as the Aneristic Illusion, and avoiding this illusion is a major tenet of the Discordian religion. The Principia illustrates this with a drawing of five pebbles, and gives several possibilities for the shape (a pentagon, or a star, or disorder). It goes on to state that "an Illuminated Mind can see all of these, yet he does not insist that any one is really true, or that none at all is true".

Fiction

Postmodern novelists and film-makers have reflected on apophenia-related phenomena, such as paranoid narrativization or fuzzy plotting (e.g., Vladimir Nabokov's "Signs and Symbols", Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and V., Alan Moore's Watchmen, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, Arturo Pérez-Reverte's The Club Dumas, The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, and the films Conspiracy Theory, Darren Aronofsky's π, A Beautiful Mind and The Number 23). As narrative is one of our major cognitive instruments for structuring reality, there is some common ground between apophenia and narrative fallacies such as hindsight bias. Since pattern recognition may be related to plans, goals, and ideology, and may be a matter of group ideology rather than a matter of solitary delusion, the interpreter attempting to diagnose or identify apophenia may have to face a conflict of interpretations.

The Question, who is portrayed as a conspiracy theorist in the television series Justice League Unlimited, was mentioned to have apophenia. He claimed to see connections between the Girls Scouts and the crop circle phenomenon as well as spy satellites and fluoridated toothpaste.

A disembodied soul or spirit which can be seen, a supernatural appearance or image which can be recognized by the viewer.

- A sudden or unusual sight which has appeared and sometimes can just as quickly disappear (possibly of a ghost or ghost-like vision)

- Something which only exists in perception

When a solid object appears in different locations with the help of a spirit, an object transported through supernatural means.